I’m devastated to share that my mom (mi madre querida de mi vida) Margarita Casillas, suffered a heart attack on September 26, after a long and difficult 2 month battle with multiple health issues.

My mom was so strong, loving, active and so outgoing. She was a single mother her whole life and did it without any support. She loved so many people and she adored her flowers, which she called her babies.

She was admitted to SoCal Hospital of Culver City ICU on July 4 but managed to remain stable in bed. Over the past few months she slowly recovered and was stable enought to be discharged to a facililty where she was supposed to recover. On September 24, she was released to the convalesent facililty where 2 days later she unexpectedly and tragically ended up passing away.

My mom fought like a warrior (Guerrera) at 84 years old just to succumb to her battle which doesn't make sense to me. She had been on Dialysis, intubated 4x, went into cardiac arrest 4x, suffered septic shock/ bl.culture, pneumonia, pulmonary disease, kidney failure, heart failure, bed sores, multiple medical procedures including an invasive and traumatic tracheostomy tube (neck) & feeding tube but still fought relentlessly to beat it all.

During her stay at the hospital, she had been fully alert & awake the majority of the time,she was never once on life support, in a coma, or brain dead except for the day she passed away at the convalescent home. I had hope that she still had life in her and so did she, until she was sent to that hospital, where she was supposed to get better not die. I trusted them with my moms care and I am heartbroken and still trying to understand what happened. That was the only place that had the services & care she needed. I can't help but feel like the decision we thought was in her best interest, took a tragic turn for the worse, and ended up being the worse possible outcome. My life is forever changed.

I understand that times are tough for everyone and I wish I didnt have to do this but I appreciate any support, big or small. I have limited resources and not much support, if any and just want to be able to lay my madre to rest in peace.

Thank you!

With heartfelt love,

Dianna Cas If you would like to contact me, Diana, directly- please message me on FB.